The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.
MOLIEREOur minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
More Moliere Quotes
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The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.
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Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.
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We die only once, and for such a long time.
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Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.
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The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.
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One should eat to live, not live to eat.
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I will maintain it before the whole world.
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Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.
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No reason makes it right To shun accepted ways from stubborn spite; And we may better join the foolish crowd Than cling to wisdom, lonely though unbowed.
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A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.
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We always speak well when we manage to be understood.
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As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.
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Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
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We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it’s good, is so very good That the bad when it’s bad can’t be bad!
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Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.
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I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.
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New-born desires, after all, have inexplicable charms, and all the pleasure of love is in variety.
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What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.
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There is no protection against slander.
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Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
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When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
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I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.
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The great ambition of women is to inspire love.
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People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.
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